I fell for the engineering meme

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I fell for the engineering meme Anonymous Tue Jul 19 18:00:26 2022 No.50447896 [Reply] [Original]

Our CEO, over the last year has been very vocal and transparent about how we are developing ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) and EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) standards. He's always talking about how at industry conferences this is a huge topic of conversation with other CEO's and that every other competitor is doing the same.

Now unsuprisingly, because we are an engineering company, our employees are predominantely men. One of the 'equity' and 'diversity' goals we have is to therefore hire more women, and promote more women to senior management. The only problem is that to do and manage our work you need to:

a.) have an engineering degree
b.) be very experienced.

The pool of experienced female engineers in our field is extremely low (I would peg it at less than 10%). The proportion of upcoming female engineers in schools is higher, but still low (25%). We work on projects that have extremely high consequences if we fuck up. The general public and environment is at great risk if we fuck up. Therefore, the only safe way for our company to safely increase the proportion of female staff is hire lots of new grads that are female, train them, promote them, and hope they dont leave. The existing predominantly male senior management isnt going to demote themselves. What this ultimately means is that if you are a young man, looking to get started in our industry, you are at a strong disadvantage.

Im not a butthurt incel either. I'm set for life and two of the engineers I most respect at the company is are women. However, this culture of promoting and hiring on gender or race rather than merit will have societal wide consequences. In the investigation of the mount polley mine disaster it was concluded that the relatively young female engineer managing the project was too inexperienced for the role, which directly led to the disaster. Before this her company no doubt used her as a marketing statistic to brag about how many women they hired and promoted.

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